Transportation: Megaloplar

Transportation experts have a mouthful of a phrase to describe the area
between Washington and Boston. It is the "Northeastern Megalopolitan
Corridor," and it implies just what "megalo" means in
medicine: an abnormal enlargement. Not too many years hence, the metropolitan
centers of Washington. Baltimore. Philadelphia. New York and Boston will have
crept so near each other that they will be one huge, headachy city.
These urban areas already comprise better than 20% of the nation's
population, account for almost 30% of U.S. manufacturing, 20% of its
retail trade and 27% of the federal income tax takeand...